Huawei backed research at US institutions becomes subject of House probe

Two senior US lawmakers blasted a Washington-based foundation for secretly accepting money from Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co., saying the move “flies in the face” of efforts to keep foreign adversaries from compromising US research.

The letter stemmed from Bloomberg News reporting earlier this month that showed how Huawei, which is blacklisted by the US government, secretly funded a research competition that has awarded millions of dollars through the Optica Foundation. The foundation is an arm of the nonprofit professional society Optica.